HOSPITALIS - Healthcare Online Shared Platform for Increasing Tessin and Lombardy Immigrants’ Treatment and Assistance

Within this project an online platform for continuing education towards healthcare assistance to patients who are immigrants from developing countries had been developed. The platform is addressed to the healthcare personnel working in the cross-border areas of Tessin and Lombardy. Furthermore, the project developed online courses dealing with biometric, epidemiologic, therapeutic, and linguistic issues concerning the doctor-patient interaction, issues concerning the psychology of communication, medical anthropology and intercultural communication, demographic issues, and legal issues.